Briefs -- Published Sept. 21, 2007

Friday

Sep 21, 2007 at 12:01 AM

STOCKTON - The Record's Literacy & Book Fair/Family Day at the Park takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at University Park. The event, now in its 10th year, will feature plenty of fun activities and will be held rain or shine.

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STOCKTON - The Record's Literacy & Book Fair/Family Day at the Park takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at University Park. The event, now in its 10th year, will feature plenty of fun activities and will be held rain or shine.

San Joaquin A+ will kick off the festivities with a fun run at 7:45 a.m.

The annual event features art projects for kids, live music, storytelling, a used-book sale and more. Admission is free. There will also be 60 booths that provide opportunities to learn, create and listen.

University Park is located at Magnolia and California streets in Stockton. The event is sponsored by the San Joaquin Media Group, The Grupe Co., Target, First 5 San Joaquin, Friends of the Stockton Public Library Inc., Health Plan of San Joaquin, the Library and Literacy Foundation and the city of Stockton.

The fair, designed to support and encourage literacy and an appreciation for reading, precedes San Joaquin County Reads Week, which runs begins Sunday.

SAN ANDREAS - Former Calaveras County Administrative Officer Brent Harrington will come out of retirement to serve as interim administrator for the county when Tom Mitchell, the current administrative officer, leaves Oct. 1 to take the top administrative job in Mendocino County.

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Claudino announced the appointment Tuesday. He said the board voted 4-0 in favor of hiring Harrington. Supervisor Steve Wilensky was absent. Claudino also announced that the board has named Michael Miller interim director of the Public Works Department. Miller, a former public works administrator in Palo Alto and Livermore, will start Oct. 15. He will fill in for Rob Houghton, who is leaving the county's top public works post in October to begin a private consulting business.

County officials are beginning searches for permanent candidates for both positions.

The San Joaquin County Reading Association and University of the Pacific are sponsoring "Sunday Sundaes" at 2 p.m. Sunday.